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So i fired my old comp(P1 @ 166 Mhz, 96 RAM-don't ask me why i have so much-, 2 Mb S3 Trio Video Card-PCI of course-) yesterday and i tried to install Kyrandia 1.I installed it, ran the setup, everything went smooth.I started the game, the movie played until the bit were the narrator says something about malcolm stealing the kyragem, and wreaking havoc in kyrandia.Then it looks for something on the cd(i have the full game), and suddently i get this message:
"*** Hymem.sys Error (A7) *** Run setup and remove XMS and HMA usage.

Memory allocation error
Cannot load COMMAND, system halted."

Progress so far:
1.Reinstalled DOS - didn't solve anything
2.Removed some RAM cartridges - didn't solve anything
3.Tried fiddling with the hymem & emm386 command parameters, no success

Particularities:
The problem only appears to westwood games.I successfully played ufo, but i couldn't play Kyrandia 2 because of the same problem

Similarities:
I had the same problem when trying to run Kyrandia 2.This time the intro movie finishes, i enter a new game, zanthia says oh my god i have been robed(yes it's also the full cd version), and then it says please wait loading data from the CD, it checks the CD, then it restarts(there is no error prompt).

Misc:
1.I have enough memory to run it, so it isn't a case of not enough memory(i had 625(!) k base memory and enough XMS memory -imagine 96 Mb ram )
2.It seems to be some sort of cd rom -memory conflict
3.The cd is good, i ran the game flawlessly a few weeks ago

I leave this case in your capable hands :help: